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By Mortimer J. Adler. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1937. 686 pp.
ARE WE MOVIE-MADE? By Raymond Moley. New York: MacyMasius, 1938. 64 pp.
Adler's book is a disquisition on the problems of art on the receptive side, and especially on the most popular form of art in our time, cinematography, along the lines of his 'practical philosophy'. Since this means a series of deductions—mostly based on the opinions of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas—without reference to our inductive, dynamic, and genetic points of view, it has to be judged on its own merit as remaining outside of the domain of psychological and especially psychoanalytical interest. The only mention of psychoanalysis is with reference to the theory of sublimation which is presented correctly but without the attempt of a deeper inquiry into its mechanism or effects.